Connecting with the broader world

IN an increasingly borderless world, multilingualism is becoming more and more important – which is why now is not the time to limit ourselves linguistically because it would also mean limiting ourselves economically, technologically and scientifically.

Yet that is what we seem to be doing: Following a push to increase the use of Malay, Chief Secretary to the Government Tan Sri Mohd Zuki Ali has called for the Public Service Department to consider punitive measures to enforce the use of the language in the civil service.